Teenagers & Driving!

nun69

nun69

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so DD started driving classes and we live in a fairly small town...well I deciced to let her drive home from school today and she did fairly well until she had to stop and then make a left turn....well there was a guy stopped across from us on a motorcycle getting ready to turn right...well, she had the right away and went ahead and turned, but she turned a little too wide..he DID NOT HIT him {so no worries there} plus she was only going about 5 mph, but he was at a stand still and just laid his bike down in case she was gonna hit him...scared her and him more than anything! 2 hours later they filed a report {since it was sort of on base property} and gave her a warning...the guy had a few scratches on the bike, but that was it...so I think from now on DH will be teaching kids how to drive!!! TOO NERVE RACKING FOR ME!!!! DD came straight home and went to bed..think she was pretty upset..anybody else have issues when they had to teach their teenagers how to drive? ...
 
yep...It was not really the driving that was the issue for mine though just bad choices and lying about those choices instead of owning up to what she had done. The really bad part of it all is she would have been in zero trouble for what she actually did if she had been honest and done the right thing. It was an accident. She was backing out of a parking spot and hit the corner of the car next to her. No big deal right? Nobody was hurt and the car she hit had only like 200 dollars in damage. But instead of stopping and giving her contact info and insurance etc. she kept on going and someone saw her and called the police. Something that would have been a really minor thing turned major really quickly. Ended up getting her two tickets from it and she did not get to get her license and had to turn over her permit. Needless to say she defenitely learned her lesson from that and I know she would never do something like that again.
 
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I would definitely need a drink after that.
It has more that likely just shook her confidence really bad.
Loads of practice and I am sure she will do great.

My stepdaughter on the other hand drove like a bat outta hell and totalled 3 cars in 6 months. All this after she turned 18...needless to say she doesn't do too much driving anymore.
 
i dont have teenage kids, but speaking as someone whos mother tried to teach her to drive, DONT DO IT! My mum used to freak me out something bad, cos she was freaking out that i was going to hit something.

Some family friends ended up teaching me and i got my licence on an automatic car, because after the debacle with my mum, i was too scared to drive a manual (think u guys call them stick shifts). When i bought a manual car a few years later, my lil brother taught me to drive it. He was awesome. He stayed calm the whole time, and even when i freaked out, he just sat next to me calmly and told me i could do it. Only took me a day to learn with him.

That being said, my mum taught my brothers without any problems...think its just the mother daughter combo that doesnt work so well.
 
Oh you mean like the first time my mom took me driving? We went to a big parking lot and I drove in circles for like an hour. She suggested going to our friends house down the road. Little did she realize that the road turns to 55 mph RIGHT where we got on, and naturally someone came up behind me and was tailgating. I was so bothered by it, I took a left hand turn at about 30 mph in an SUV. Needless to say, mom was a little freaked out.

To. This. Day. If I am driving and my mother is in the front seat, her right hand is against the door bracing herself, and her right foot is flat on the floor trying to hit a set of imaginary brakes :p

My dad taught me to drive manual (the car I was going to get to drive eventually was a manual) and that went fine. I def think the mother daughter thing is a big part of it.
 
You could always do what my mom did with me...dumped me and the car at the beginning of a 20 mile mountain road that leads to the nowhere town we lived in, handed me the keys and said "See you at home!" as she got into my stepdad's car and left!
 
My mom was really bad for driving with. Every corner, any time I stepped on the brakes, etc, she would let out a squeal/gasp and grab the dashboard. Even though I was a good driver, and passed my drivers ed course at the top of my class, those reactions from my mom never gave me any confidence as a driver, and I still don't have my license. I'm extremely nervous when I drive.

Definately a mother/daughter thing.
 
oh yeh my dad totally HAD to be the one to teach me.. to this day I don't think my mom has ever been in the car with me driving :p
 
I taught my son to drive. My husband gets riled up too easily so I had to be the one to do it. We started in empty parking lots. Did that for about 5-10 hours (broken up over about 2 weeks). And then started on the local streets. Did that for quite a while, maybe 20 hours. Then worked up to hiways. In all he probably had 400 hours of driving. Jacob and I went out 2-3 times a week for nearly a year and then I had him take Driver's Ed and then get his license. He really didn't need driver's ed except it gives a big discount on the insurance costs, so I insisted.

We did have one big scare when I was teaching him. He needed to change lanes and didn't look in his blind spot. There was a car there and he nearly hit it until I screamed at him. The other car nearly went into a ditch and it could have been really bad. It shook us both up and for a week neither of us wanted to go out driving again. But we just kept at it. Good luck!! I know I felt I deserved a metal after teaching Jacob to drive!
 
My dh taught the first two to drive. My dh isn't a good driver (and my boys are all well aware of this), but he doesn't get nervous with them driving. My third son is just now learning and has a permit type thing (since he's 22). He only drives with my dh in the van or truck. I had to teach my youngest though because when he was learning, my dh was up in Alaska working for 6 months. It was the most nerve wrecking time of my life. He ended up running a red light that had the photo thing. Great...I took the hit on it though because I couldn't imagine how much his inusurance would be if he had to take the hit..while he still had his permit. Since the van is registered in my name, it came to me (with his photo...LOL). He was in an accident too after dropping me off at the airport once. Someone was pulling into his lane and he panicked and swerved into someone. He was almost home too. Of course, insurance went up.

It is something that scares me all the time, whether I'm with them or not. They've all been in accidents (except for the 22 year old...no license yet). Since my dh is a horrible driver, I don't ride with him either. We go in "my" car, and since it's mine, I drive!! I try to not go in his!
 
My dad was the one who freaked out while teaching us how to drive. My mom was much more relaxed about it (whether she actually felt that way or not, I don't know). When I began I felt comfortable with driving, but parking was what I had trouble with. One time my dad demanded that I park in a particular space and I didn't feel comfortable doing it. I was so nervous my foot slipped from the brake to the gas pedal and I hit the front of the Volvo in the space across from me. There wasn't too much damage, but I was really upset.

I spent the next hour crying in the back of the car with my dad, the police officer, and the lady who owned the car trying to convince me it would be alright.
 
Well... for me, Sears Driving School taught me. My mom tried to teach me how to drive stick... and sat there the whole time laughing at me!!! To this day I won't drive stick.

I feel so bad for your daughter... I hope that the motorcycle incident doesn't scare her to drive.
 
I think she will be OK....and I just talked with the insurance company and they said that since there was NO CONTACT with the mmotorcycle, it really wasn't an accident. They also said that if laid his bike down and damaged it then he is responsible for his own vehicle...just because he assumed that she was gonna hit him, didn't mean he needed to lay his bike down....but at least they have a copy of it and it is on file....so I hope she will be ok...
 
I have a 16yo ds and a 14yo ds and neither have their permits ... and I'm not rushing it ... I don't want to get a job just to pay the raise in our insurance! I'm in nooooooooo hurry!
 
No teenagers here, but I got to learn to drive from my mom the drivers license examinor and my dad the cop. Yeah, that was really fun. :glare:
 
My 16 year old just got his license in January. He primarily learned to drive thru drivers ed (a 6 week course), and then drove with us for 15 months on his permit. He was a little scary to drive with at first. My husband can be a bit bossy as the passenger/navigator and he rattled ds one of the first few times he drove and he ran a red light. But we survived it and he drives really well now. We have been teaching him to drive a stick shift lately and I think I did better with him at the beginning than dh. But dh is pushing him a bit now and he is doing well. Just keep building their confidence =)

Stephanie
 
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